News
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September 7, 2022
Sachs Program Artist-in-Residence Tak Ensemble Announce 2022 SeasonTAK will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in the 2022-2023 season. Marking a decade of cultivating creative programming at the highest level, TAK's season features the world premiere of a New York Philharmonic co-commission by Tyshawn Sorey for the Kravis Nightcap series;
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September 1, 2022
Selective Attention: Interventions into the Computational Gaze Opens at Annenberg SchoolSachs Program Grantee Lisa Marie Patzer has opened a new exhibition at the Annenberg School featuring the work of Patzer, Kelsey Halliday Johnson, and Roopa Vasudevan. It is on view on the 5th floor of the School and a public reception will take place October 18 at 5:30pm.
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August 20, 2022
Velocity Fund Announces 2022 GranteesChosen from a diverse field of over 155 applicants, this year’s grantees proposed a wide range of projects – a digital community archive by Disabled people, public sculptures exploring Philadelphia’s radical Queer past, a performance art work at a recycling facility, a video synthesis workshop, an immersive theater production, a collaboration with high school students, a storytelling project about Philadelphia’s local fish, an experimental short documentary on the historic Black business corridor in West Philadelphia.
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May 26, 2022
Human movement: Wolf Undergraduate Humanities forum takes on the topic of migrationThe Wolf Undergraduate Humanities forum takes on the topic of migration, with individual research projects ranging from slavery debates within the Jewish Orthodox community to Southeast Asian refugee youth.
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May 26, 2022
Engaging in intersectional conversations on race and racismIn the spring, students engaged with complex topics, both intellectually and civically, as part of American Race: A Philadelphia Story, a Stavros Niarchos Foundation Paideia Program course. Taught by Fariha Khan, co-director of the Asian American Studies Program, the course examined race intellectually and civically through a broad, multidisciplinary lens, with students engaging in this topic with directed readings, guest speaker presentations, and in-depth conversations with their classmates about the city of Philadelphia.